Preview: Bo Ningen

After a storming headline set at Handmade Festival a couple of years back, the Leicester weekender have bought the Japanese four-piece force of nature back to the city for a headline show – part of a series to celebrate the festival’s fifth anniversary. This is noisy rock for fans of Hookworms, Boris and The Boredoms. Support comes from “friends of Handmade” Kagoule from Nottingham, and darlings of the city’s music scene Ash Mammal and Kermes. This is a stacked bill, and one of the first at brand new city venue Dryden Street Social. It’ll be a baptism of fire – perhaps literally – for the new club.

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Great Central, John has been actively involved in Leicester's creative community for over a decade - promoting shows and releasing records under the name Robot Needs Home. He is a director of Handmade Festival, and ex member of the band Maybeshewill.

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